Metallic facing for buildings



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L. L. SAGENDORPH. METALLIC FACING FOR BUILDINGS.

No. 471,722. Patented Mar. 29, 189 2.

fur EJ21271 Unrrn TATES i ATENT FFICEQ LONGLEY LEWIS SAGENDORPH, CF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, AS-

SIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES N. HARDER, OF PHILMONT, NEW

YORK.

METALLIC FACING FOR BUILDINGS.

I ECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,722, dated March 29, 1892.

Application filed July 27, 1891. Serial No. 400,815. (No model.)

To ztZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I LONGLEY LEWIS SAG- ENDORPH, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Facings for Buildings, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention consists in the method and means hereinafter set forth for connecting the meeting and overlapping edges of adjacent plates, and is more particularly designed to be used in connection with facing-plates of a design and configuration substantially as shown and described in Patent No. 448,732, dated March 24, 1891, and also in Design Patout No. 20,825, dated June 9, 1891; but in so far as applicable the means hereinafter set forth may be used in connection with facingplates differing in contour from that set forth in the aforesaid patents.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face view of a portion of two metallic plates united together at their overlapping edges and connected to the studding of a building accordingto'my invention. Fig. 2 is a crosssection, on an enlarged scale, taken through the overlapping corrugated flanges of the plates, showing one mode of connecting the latter between the studding, the dotted lines indicating the position of the staple-points before and after being bent to place. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, in which a wire is used in place of the staple shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 illustrates the staples as applied longitudinally with the corrugation instead of crosswise, as in the other views.

In ordinary metallic facing-plates it is necessary that the building be first sheeted, to which the plates are then nailed; but by reason of the peculiar formation of my improved fa'cing-plates the latter is doubly strengthened or stiffened, and by this means I am enabled to apply my improved plates direct to the studding and dispense with the sheeting, and when so applied it is desirable to provide some means for connecting the overlapping plates between said studding. It will be seen that the facing-plates A terminate along their longitudinal edges in a convex corrugation B and that the corrugater passes through the two plates at each side of thefl overlapping corrugations, as shown, the points of said staple being bent or clinched in such a manner as to securely retain the body thereof in contact with said corrugated flanges,'and in this manner the latter are securely and firmly locked together, forming an approximately solid plate. At the points where the plates come into contact with the studding the staples are driven therein. The same result as that attained by the use of staples between the studding is accomplished (by practically the same means) by the use of wires E, passed through openings at each side of overlapping corrugated flanges and then twisting said wire, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3, the twisting of the wire tending to securely lock said partstogether.

Instead of having the staples or wires engage across the overlapping corrugations they may be arranged longitudinally therewith, as shown in Fig. 4.

The advantages of my invention consist in the facility afforded for connecting facingplates direct to the studding and also for uniting said plates together between the stud ding. Any suitable configuration of plate may be thus connected, if sufficiently stifiened to be applied direct to the studding Without the use of sheeting.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The facing-plates having overlapping corrugated flanges, in combination with a suitable staple encircling said overlapping flanges for connectingsaid plates to the studding.

2. The overlapping plates, in combination with a staple or its eqnivalentpassed through plates together ahd to the studding, substanthe overlapping portions of said plates and tially as set forth. clinched or locked at the rear thereof, for the purposes set forth. LONGLEY LEWIS SAGENDORPH. 5 3. The facing-plates A, having the overlap- Witnesses:

ping flanges B, in combination with staples A. L. FoULDs,

D or equivalent thereof for connecting said 1 WM. AUBREY. 

